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| Registered: April 8, 2007 |  Posts: 1,057 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi Guys,
You guys with, & those that went to the metric system ( meters, kilograms etc.) why did you leave time out? Couldn't you divide the world into 10 time zones. One hour = 100 min, one minute = 100 seconds.
Take Care
Rico | | | If I felt any better I'd be sick!
Envy is mental theft. If you covet another mans possessions, then you should be willing to take on his responsibilities, heartaches, and troubles, along with his money. D. Koontz |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,217 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Rico: Quote:
You guys with, & those that went to the metric system ( meters, kilograms etc.) why did you leave time out? Couldn't you divide the world into 10 time zones. One hour = 100 min, one minute = 100 seconds. Because a year has 365,25 days anyways, so the metrification of hours, minutes and seconds would be only half of the pie anyways. Not to mention that you users of Freddy-Flintstone-Units would whine even louder about metrification  cya, Mithi PS The french tried to establish a metric time-system after the revolution, but even back then the resistance was to big. | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Mithi: Now don't get me started on teasing the French.  Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 630 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Rico: Quote:
Hi Guys,
You guys with, & those that went to the metric system ( meters, kilograms etc.) why did you leave time out? Couldn't you divide the world into 10 time zones. One hour = 100 min, one minute = 100 seconds.
Take Care
Rico Stupidity mainly... but at least we made it some of the way  Too bad evolution didn't give us 12 fingers as well - metric using the 12 number system would have been pretty neat | | | Regards
Lars |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 756 |
| | Posted: | | | | In the UK we have a complete mishmash of units.... Petrol is sold by the litre, but car stats quoted as miles per gallon, distance is measured in miles Orange juice is sold by the litre, but milk by the pint beer is sold by the pint in pubs, but metric in tinnies & those 25cl bottles from Tesco! Being an old buqqer (but not quite as old as Maurice) , I have the air-con in the car set in Farenheit (it winds the kids up!!) , but I DIY in millimeters. For the satellite to the left, we have kit built in Atlanta....the drawings from those fine chaps are usually dimentioned in inches, & torques in foot-pounds, which we then have to translate to mm & Nm for our French integration team. One of their more recent drawings sets had one set of torque figures in Imperial, and one line below, another set in metric.....but I've finally managed to persuade them to change to metric...(thanks Tommy W., I owe you for that one!)..... And you're confused????? | | | | Chris | | | | Last edited: by Mole |
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| Registered: April 8, 2007 | | Posts: 1,057 |
| | Posted: | | | | The military tried...0100, 1300 hrs etc.
Take Care
Rico | | | If I felt any better I'd be sick!
Envy is mental theft. If you covet another mans possessions, then you should be willing to take on his responsibilities, heartaches, and troubles, along with his money. D. Koontz |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,217 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Rico: Quote:
The military tried...0100, 1300 hrs etc. Nope, they just skip the ":" it's simple hours, minutes. 1300 ist 13:00 (or 1:00 PM) and after 659 comes 700 cya, Mithi BTW Who, besides the US still uses this AM/PM stuff? | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mithi: Quote:
BTW Who, besides the US still uses this AM/PM stuff? Canada does sometimes. I've even seen people confused enough to write 14:00 PM ..... |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mithi: Quote:
Quoting Rico:
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The military tried...0100, 1300 hrs etc.
Nope, they just skip the ":" it's simple hours, minutes.
1300 ist 13:00 (or 1:00 PM) and after 659 comes 700
cya, Mithi
BTW Who, besides the US still uses this AM/PM stuff? Correction, it's "after 0659 comes 0700". |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,493 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,744 |
| | Posted: | | | | Decimal watches are for n00bs! This is the real thing!  | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 1,339 |
| | Posted: | | | | how would you even read that karsten? | | | | -JoN |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,744 |
| | Posted: | | | | There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 630 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting ruineddaydreams: Quote:
how would you even read that karsten? This is the beginners edition - it has the value of each "bit" printed - just add them up (hours on top, minutes below). I'll never admit that I can decode it even without these numbers printed. This one can't display 24 hours format though, so it's quite useless. | | | Regards
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RossRoy: Quote:
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BTW Who, besides the US still uses this AM/PM stuff?
Canada does sometimes. I've even seen people confused enough to write 14:00 PM ..... Speaking of which; I would like to have an option to change that to the 24 Hour Clock in the forum. Ken, do you read me? | | | Martin Zuidervliet
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 235 |
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